Analysis Of Carl Marx's The Communinst Maifesto

Carl Marx’s crowning work The Communinst Maifesto could be considered one of the most influential political texts in human history. This work begins by explaining Marx’s theory that "the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles". He describes these classes as inherently opposed to one another, the upper class taking the role of an oppressor and the lower class taking the role of the oppressed. As human political history has progressed, former systems like feudalism that were characterized by many different classes such as surfs, knights, merchants, and royalty, have given way to a new class system in which only two classes exist, the haves and the have nots. Marx calls these two groups the Bourgeoisie and the Proletariate. In his work, Marx argues that this new polarized division directly resulted from the increased demand for products exacerbated by the colonization of the Americans as well as the industrialization of the West to meet these growing needs. Because of increased demand for products, …show more content…
He argues that the amount of production a country is capable of could not be fully utilized because of the political order. The result of this imbalance is the swift restructuring of political order to allow for the utilization of the labor force for production. However, because of this rapid shift, dramatic economic crises occurred in the mid-18th century due to the effects of overproduction. In order to balance the effects of overproduction, the capitalists reached out to new markets, and further exploited the markets they currently had. This cycle of expansion and exploitation would eventually come to a head in Marx’s opinion, increasing the pressures on the new working class, everyone except the Bourgeoisie. These pressures created by capitalism would eventually lead to the creation of this new class, which he called the